Having dealt with two NYC and one LI nursing home while caring for my aunt and uncle I know one thing for sure, a resident gets sick he/she are first seen by home physician and then sent to either a specialist or ER . Homes don’t like to be sued so they take care if a condition looks serious. There is no way they are capable of handling a contagious and dangerous disease and they know it. Cuomo knew it too and didnt care.
Cuomo is also proud that he didn’t even give the nursing homes a chance to object to his plan, just said it’s an order to do it you have no choice. From what I read A few nursing homes did object and ask that patient we sent to the Javits center, which was set up specifically to treat coronavirus patients but the state specifically told them no you must take them in and care for them.
I can also attest to the fact that nursing homes do not want to treat “sick” people who need care above what a nursing home should be doing, which is why if something comes up as you mentioned the in-house doctor will check it out and send them to the hospital or specialist for proper treatment. A nursing home is meant to just care for someone who is already on a specific medication regimen prescribed by a Doctor Who is unable to take care of themselves, not treat an unknown disease.
“Having dealt with two NYC and one LI nursing home while caring for my aunt and uncle I know one thing for sure, a resident gets sick he/she are first seen by home physician and then sent to either a specialist or ER . Homes don’t like to be sued so they take care if a condition looks serious. There is no way they are capable of handling a contagious and dangerous disease and they know it. Cuomo knew it too and didnt care.”
The TOP of the medical profession is at the major hospitals, and they are the top of food chain when it comes to political donations from the health care industry. Nursing homes - in terms of the medical care there - get the least medically qualified people, anywhere I have had experience with, and yes, when things get bad with a patient there then their objective is to get the patient to a hospital, not treat them at the nursing home - they are in no position for unexpected. But, for New York and other states, follow the donor money. To Cuomo there was no political benefit telling hospitals to take and keep a hospitalized nursing home patient with the Wuhan Virus. He had already directed hospitals could not take in revenue producing “non essential” business, due to a worry about an “overwhelming” of their facilities that largely did not happen.